The Quuuuuill

yeah turns out people were more invested in emotional fulfillment than physical pleasure. so instead of fucking elaborate sex toys, people are forming bonds with chatgpt

having grown up in an area ravaged by the drug trade i’d say you’re on the right track but missing the mark a little. the drug trade is fueled by people who are absolutely desperate for any relief from the ravages of the reality we live in, and frequently who starts people on a drug course is a doctor prescribing opioids in a high risk case.

what i think most americans miss is that the drug trade’s perpetrators are not foreign cartels, but domestic tax evaders and billionaires. the republicans are sicking ice on immigrants and using fentanyl as their justification, but the opioids are grown here in america largely along the appalachian spine. the flow of drugs is less into the us than people estimate and has more to do with exports than imports than most realize.

if the republicans REALLY wanted to cut down the drug trade, here’s what they’d do:

• fund programs that economically elevate poor americans and prevent people from being totally desperate and destitute like SNAP, WIC, and housing vouchers
• invest heavily in early education
• combat organized crime outfits by utilizing the tools that are best at stripping them of power: utilizing anti-hate laws to help minorities feel safe, celebrating multiculturalism, creating multiuse public spaces that are free to use like parks, rec centers, and playgrounds

but of course conservatives won’t do any of that because if they did they wouldn’t be conservatives. they profit from all these broken systems being broken, so they keep them broken.

i was thinking of doing an essay about this very concept. advertisers are complicit in, and profit from, a multitude of disasters, both natural and human made. all ad dollars are blood money

yup! the real problem is the venture capitalists who run the internet as a financial market centered around the attention economy

forums are the best. i encounter ex-redditors here on the threadiverse who are like “well at least discord is better than old school forums” and i’m like “what am i missing that everyone thinks old school forums are so horrid”

oh! so we’re clear i’m not advocating against repairability. we absolutely must have that. but i’m tired of how easy it is to destroy an unfixable phone. we should have repairable phones that are designed to have long service intervals

at the time we were like “this is some performative nonsense” but now with all of these awful tech billionaires and Tom’s conducted himself, i do actually think he meant it when he said he did that because he thought everyone deserved to have a friend

there’s no preventing us from having thinner cases and thicker phones for such scenarios (and is probably the route i’d want to take, too, since i’m extra clumsy)

dropping them accidentally occasionally.

oh man your experience is so different from mine 😂

any phone i drop brings it a little closer to being completely non functional as long as it’s not in a case.

but i do agree with you about one thing: it is all about aesthetic. there’s tons of phones out there made with less shatterproof/scratch resistant glass, or think enough outer shells to protect their innards because when you buy a phone in a store you find the slim ones sexier

also we have to encase our phones in cases because they’re not durable enough to survive day to day life. they could be made more rugged from the factory